Awning for windows.



A. F. SMITH.

AWNING FOR WINDOWS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1913.'

1,104,452, Patented July 21, 1914.

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ARTHUR F. SMITH, Ul? VENTURA, CALIFRNIA..

A WNNG FOR WINDOWS.

Speciiicatien of Letters Patent.

Patented Aduly 2i, titties.

Application filed September 2, 1913. Serial No. 787,601.

17h all fui/0m` it may concern Be it known that l, ARTHUR l?. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ventura, in the county of Ventura, State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Awnings for ll/indowa of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to awnings for win dows or other openings, and the principal object is to provide an adjustable awning permitting a free circulation of air in connection with the opening desired to be covered.

lt is also an object to provide an awning slidably supported.

lt is a further object to provide an awning which may be operated from the interior of the building.

l accomplish these objects by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the awning and a section of a screened house to which it is applied. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through the walls of the building and the screen with its awning frame. Fig. 3 is a similar section showing the awning in elevated position to exclude light, wind, and storni, but not prevent the entrance of air. Fig. a is a detail partly in plan and partly in section, showing the operating means. tion on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows.

More specifically in the drawings, G designates the side of a building provided with a window or open screen portion 7 having a frame inclosing the same provided with a facing 8, the sill 9, and a top piece 10. On the outer facing of this window is secured the screen 11 which is also secured to the sill 9 in thev usual well known manner by means a half round strip 12. Outside of and inclo'sing the window frame is a second frame formed integrally therewith having a common watershed 1li, the side bars 15 secured to this watershed extending below the sill 9 and being so arranged that there is a space intermediate the side bars and the facing 8 and the siding 1G of the building.

To secure the side frames in proper relation a base bar 17 is provided to secure the vertically slotted bars 15 in position at their lower ends. Slidably mounted in the slots 18 of the side bars 15 are the free ends of the top and bottom bars 19 and 20 respec- F 5 is a transverse sec' tively of the vawning frame, these top and bottom bars `being joined by the side bars 22 forming a frame of rectangular coniiguration, as shown, upon which is stretched canvas or other fabric 23.

Secured to the upper bar 19 preferably so they fall opposite the facing 8 are the eyes 2d to which is secured the cable or flexible line 25, this cable being carried over a pulley 26 secured to the watershed and from this point to the pulley 27 horizontally disposed adjacent the opening in the architrave 28 which is placed intermediate the top me1nber of the window frame and the watershed 11i. From this point the lines are passed together through the same opening, a duplication of the pulleys being formed on the other side of the frame and carried inwardly to a pulley 29 from which point they are carried to any suitable cleat or other fastening device so that when the awning is lifted it will be secured in this position or any intermedi-ate position desired.

rlhe slots 18 are of such length that they do not permit the tcp and bottom bars to rest upon or contact with the watershed 14 or the base 17 so that at all times air may enter and pass around the inner portions of the cross frames 19 and 2O which do not contact with any portion of the window frame or siding'.

`What l claim is:

l. An awning for framed openings, coinprising` a frame, an auxiliary frame secured thereto having slotted side bars, said bars being spaced a distance from said frame, and a sliding frame adapted to be covered with a fabric and slidably mounted in said slots,

whereby circulation of air is not destroyed.

2. An awning for framed openings, comprising a frame, slotted side bars secured in spaced relation to said frame and eXteriorly thereof, a watershed connected to each of said side bars and said frame, a frame slidably mounted in said slotted bars, an opaque fabric secured to said frame, and means to raise and lower said sliding frame.

8. An awning for framed openings, com,- prising an apertured frame, a watershed secured thereto, slotted side bars secured externally of said frame and of said watershed, means to adjust said side bars in spaced relation to said window frame and its supports, cross bars slidably mounted in said slotted side bars, means to connect said sliding cross bars to form an awning frame,

an opaque i'abi'o secured to said frame, op- In Witness that I claim the foregoing I eratmg hnes secured to said awning rame, have hereunto subscribed my name this 13th 10 and sheaves supported adjacent the upper day of August, 1913.

portion of said apertures in said apertured ARTHUP F SMTH frame, whereby said lines may be Cmred y over said shea-ves to the interior of the struc- Vtnesses:

ture to which said Window frame and its at- N. K. LINCOLN,

tachments are secured. J. E. D. STALLINGS.

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